Trauma Support Check-in: April 5, 2021
Hello everyone! My name is Ava, and I am super excited to take on the Monday check-ins for the Trauma Support community.
Today is Monday, the beginning of a new week! I have some questions for you:
1. How are you doing? Do you have any highs or lows you'd like to share?
2. What is something you can do today to make the upcoming week less stressful?
3. If you could travel to any different country, which would you choose?
Thank you for checking in. I am very excited to be a part of this community and look forward to all your responses! Have a wonderful week everyone. 
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@fairyava Hello Ava! It's wonderful to meet you and to see your first check-in. Thank you for the time and effort you give to the community here!
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@TheFisherKing Of course! I am happy to be here!
@fairyava
Hi Ava :)
@sensitiveShade5337 Hello! It's nice to meet you.
@fairyava
Hello. Thank you for the check in and the questions, I'm sorry but I don't feel like answering them. The week is just starting and it's already been terrible.
Sending healing beams and tokens of support ❤️
Hang on tight
@Kimmkimm
@adequatelyInadequate
Thank you very much. I hope you have a lovely week.
@Kimmkimm That's totally ok. Thanks for dropping by to say hello.
@fairyava
I'm happy to have you here, Ava. You've always been an angel in the chatrooms and I know you'll do great here. Have a lovely week as well.
@fairyava
Hi Ava. My high today was watching the sunrise at the river with my daughter. She is rarely up that early. I also spoke with a friend today. My low is I've had a lot of time to think today. I've been working on letting the thoughts go. Sometimes I get in a negative thought loop. I don't see my therapist until next week so we'll see how that goes.
@RedHawk6547 Ooh, watching the sunrise is so fun. It's such a pretty view and a great opportunity to get your mind off of things. I'm proud of you for working on letting thoughts go - it can be easy to dwell on our thoughts. I hope you're able to get through this week, you'll be able to see your therapist again soon but we're here for you in the meantime.
Take care!
Hey Ava! Thank you for doing this Check-in!
1. How are you doing? Do you have any highs or lows you'd like to share?
Yesterday night- or maybe it was the day before that- I got triggered. A few days ago I dissociated. I’m doing better today, but all this highs and lows are killing me. I’m trying to impose some sort of routine into the house, so that my sleeping schedule will settle and I’ll be able to deal with all this better, but it’s slow going.
2. What is something you can do today to make the upcoming week less stressful?
I made some pancakes and set a date for my therapist.
3. If you could travel to any different country, which would you choose?
Argentina, more precisely Tierra de Fuego. Just go around seeing all that snow, exploring caves... of course, it’s not too disability-friendly :/ Otherwise I’d choose something like Alaska or Northern Canada- I really want to see real, true, snow. Like loads of it. See a true blizzard, and get snowed in while in a cozy cabin with plenty of food, water, books and no internet access (except for emergencies.)
What about you? Where would you want to go?
@adequatelyInadequate I'm super sorry you got triggered, I know that can really throw you off for a while! I'm so glad you're doing better today. Pancakes sound delicious and good job for setting up a therapy appointment and taking steps towards bettering your mental health! 
Super awesome places - I love the snow. For me, I would probably choose Japan!
Take care.
Hello, I am still only hanging in there. Trying to live today as if it’s my last. Today I have had 7 seizures... the night isn’t even over. I got to talk with a service dog provider and I have high chances of qualifying. I am going to be doing a lot more cleaning. To help get the Rural Development Department out to survey my apartment. So I need to get cleaning it’s just hard when I’m having so many seizures. If I could travel it would be to a few countries.. Italy being one of them. England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany.. just to name a few.
@Mmhuebnermmm Hello and thank you for checking in! I am sorry you've been struggling recently, and I am sorry you've been experiencing such a large amount of seizures. They are very scary to experience.
I hope you are able to qualify for a service dog! They are truly amazing. Cleaning is super hard and having seizures on top of that makes it so much harder - I hear you!
We are here for you. Take care.
Thank you. It’s hard because my PTSD is causing the seizures. I have no control of it. And recently it’s been declining. And I just recently was seen and did 2 EEGs... I really feel like everything is falling apart. I can’t shower without help. I can not seem to eat food without choking but I was fine in the hospital... it doesn’t make sense to me.
@Mmhuebnermmm I can definitely understand how confused and nervous you must be. Not being able to eat/shower/get through other daily tasks like you used to be able to is a very uncomfortable feeling. 
Doesn’t help matters when I’m not even 30 yet... I have so much I still want to do. I don’t want my husband to be pushing me in a wheelchair any time soon.
1. How are you doing? Do you have any highs or lows you'd like to share? I am doing ok. My boyfriend keeps getting guilt trips from his ex (and she broke it off with him), so I am trying to support him. I plan to cook and write. Maybe clean. . . maybe not LOL.
2. What is something you can do today to make the upcoming week less stressful? Organize my things. To-do lists
3. If you could travel to any different country, which would you choose? Ireland or Italy.
